Measuring syntactic complexity in spontaneous spoken Swedish.
Hesitation disfluencies after phonetically prominent stranded function words are thought to reflect the cognitive coding of complex structures. Speech fragments following the Swedish function word att 'that' were analyzed syntactically, and divided into two groups: one with att in disfluent contexts...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 227 - 246 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2007
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